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The Industrial Revolution transformed economies that had been based on agriculture and handicrafts into economies based on large-scale industry, mechanized manufacturing, and the factory system.
Samuel Slater brought industrialized factories to New England by secretly bringing the designs for British textile machinery to the United States, memorizing the details while working as a mill apprentice in England, and then building the first successful water-powered cotton mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
Samuel Slater (1768-1835) was an English-born industrialist who introduced the first water-powered cotton mill to the United States. He is known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution".
The cotton gin led to a significant increase in cotton production by making it much faster and easier to separate cotton fibers from seeds, which in turn created a high demand for slave labor to plant and harvest the increased cotton crop
